Knitted glove and making same



April 15, 1947. E, AT 2,418,957

KNITTED GLOVE AND MAKING SAME Filed Sept. 12, 1945 75. We. 11 v 16 7 11 10 9 8 7 f v l 11? 1 L 5]; 6a 6 6 I C: 6 F a n 20 20 T S 1 YI ZZ 8 11 ET]: 5177711 32, 3flventor Gttornegw Patented Apr. 15, 1947 KNITTED GLOVE AND MAKING SAllIE Eric Simmat, Wyomissing Hills, Pa., assignor to The Nolde and Horst Company, Reading, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania Application September 12, 1945, Serial No. 615,726

3 Claims.

.My invention relates to a new and improved seamless knitted glove, and to a novel method of makin the same on a suitable knitting machine, and my object is to produce a high quality glove, continuously formed as an integral unit, and fashion-knitted to hand-conforming shape so as to neatly fit without distorting stretch and strain, and insure a more pleasing appearance, greater comfort, and longer wearing qualities.

More particularly my invention relates to a glove of improved construction, comprising a hand portion, fashion-knitted along one of its side edges to form an accommodating shape and location for the glove thumb and its junction with the palm, and fashion-knitted across its upper hand end to form stepped-level finger divisions for proper fit-disposition of the finger extensions therefrom. And it further relates to a novel method of knitting a glove having suzh fashioned hand portion and thumb and finger extensions by a continuous production in sequential order of its component parts to form a complete integral seamless glove unit.

The nature of my improved glove aforesaid, and the method of making the same, and its manifest improvements and advantages, will now be more fully described in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the novel features involved specifically defined in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 indicates a front elevation of a completed glove made in accordance with my invention and embodying my improved fashioned construction.

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the integrally knitted blank for forming the completed glove shown in Fig. 1.

Figs. 3 to 10 inclusive indicate diagrammatically and in sequential order my method of integrally knitting the component sectional portions of the blank of Fig. 2, for forming my improved glove.

-Figs. 11 and 12, indicate diagrammatically, respectively in plan and side views, the disposition of the needles in a known type of knitting machine adapted to produce my improved glove.

As shown in the drawings, my glove comprises the usual component sections, of a wrist portion 5, a hand portion 6, a thumb portion 1, and four finger portions 8, 9, I and H. And these portions, in accordance with my invention, and as later herein more fully described, are knitted in a sequential order and fashion-shaped to provide a lateral extension 6a at one side edge of the hand portion 6 so as to accommodate the base of a'thumb joint'and suitably locate the thumb portion 1 laterally of said hand portion at the upper end of said extension Ba to receive a thumb without distortion of the knitted fabric. And the upper end of the hand portion 6 is further fashioned into finger divisions 8a, So, I [la and I la, arranged in varied levels of stepped relation, so that the finger extensions therefor, 8, 9, l0 and II respectively, will have their junctions with the hand portion 5 at suitably fashioned variance to fit between the several fingers and extend to the base junctions of said fingers without stretch or distortion of the knitted fabric. As thus fashioned, it will be evident and readily understood, my improved glove will accommodate and fit a hand without stretch or strain, insuring greater comfort, a more pleasing appearance, and a longer wearing usefulness.

My improved glove, as above set forth, may be made on a well-known type of knitting machine more fully shown and described in U. S. Letters Patent No. 616,600 of December 27, 1898, and comprising inclined parallel rows of knitting needles I5 and It, as indicated in Figs. 11 and 12, with provision for interknitting of end needles of any sectional division of said rows to form a corresponding width of tubular fabric, which may be widened or narrowed by adding or removing end needles from the knitting operation in usual manner, well-known, and readily understood without further description herein. By suitable control of the knitting operations of such known type of knitting machine I produce my improved glove in a new manner and method as will now be described.

Referring now particularly to Figs. 3 to 10, I first provide the wrist portion 5, which may, if desired, be separately fabricated and topped on the rows of needles l5 and it, but which I prefer to knit on said needles as the initial step of my method, to form a tube of suitable length as shown in Fig. 3. To the upper course of loops of this tube 5 I continue knitting successive courses, and in accordance with my invention, fashion the tubular fabric they produce by adding needles in such successive courses at one side edge to produce the angular extension 6a, tapering outwardly from the wrist and to a laterally extended top course of loops 61) at substantially a mid-height part of the hand portion 6, as indicated in Fig. 4. I then continue knitting to the loops 6b to form the thumb 1, and hold the remaining loops of the top course of such partially knitted hand portion 6, retained on the needles but not knitting, as indicated in Fig. 5. After knitting to the loops 6b a tube of suflicient length for the thumb I, I cast off this thumb fabric and withdraw from the knitting operation the needles that produced the same, and restore the remaining needles engaged with the loops of said partial hand portion to the knitting operation to complete a fabric length suitable for the hand portion 6. In accordance with my invention, the upper end of this hand portion 6 is fashioned as indicated in Fig. 6, by

removing from knitting, but holding on the needles, certain loops to produce the little finger extension H, forminga stepped level I la therefor, and continuing to knit a few courses on the remaining needles. Then the loops to produce the first finger 8 are withdrawn from knitting and held on the needles to producethe'steppedlevel 8a, and knitting further courses on the remaining needles is continued, and loops'toproduce the ring finger ID are then withdrawn from knitting and held on the needles to produce the stepped levels Illa. A few courses may if desired then-be knitted on the remaining needles to form the stepped level 911 for finger extension 9. As thus far produced the knitted blank comprises the wrist portiont, the fashioned hand portion fi with the thumb extension '7 knitted thereto outside one side edge of said hand portion, and having adistinctive and ornamental inclined line of fashioning loops 29 indicating its fashioned construction. The upper end of the hand portion 6 is also fashioned as described into stepped-levels Il a, Illa, 9a, and 8a, each of a width for a corresponding tubular finger eXtension,-and the loops of each step held retained on their respective needles, each of such stepped levels desirably conformingto the point of junction at the base of its respective adjacent fingers with the palm of a hand.

The blank thus produced may be completed by the addition of finger tubes to the several divisionsof-stepped levels at the upper end of said hand portion 6, and the order'of their. production may be varied,but I prefer first to continue knitting a finger tube first to level=8a and'complete the necessary length of tubular fabrican'd cast it off and withdraw its needles for the knittingoperation. And then in similar manner to knit a finger tube to level 90,, then Illa, and finally to lia,- as-indicatedrespectively in Figs. 7,8, 9 and 10,'and thus complete the glove blank indicated in Fig. 2, which clearly shows the varied levels of the-finger junction with the handportion as desired. As heretofore and common practice in knitting gloves, certain loops of'adjacent fingers will be interknitted at their point of junction withthe-hand portion 6 so as to form a closed crotch between-the bases 'of saidfingers. And the glove'may be'completed by utilizing the floating unknitted ends of the yarn at each finger top, to be engaged through the end loops-of" the latter'to draw themtogether toclosesaid finger tips, as indicated in the completed glove of Fig. 1.

From the foregoing description it is believed the nature of 'my improved glove and-my'novel method of making the same may be readilyunderstood. And it will bereadily apparent that such glove is actually knitted and fashioned to shape to fita hand in a neat and undistorted manner, and the line of fashioning loops-not only distinctively indicates its fashionedfabrication, but adds a pleasing ornamentationto the glove. And lt'will-be understood that certain modifications and changes both in construction details and order of sequential production'maybe'made without departing from the spiritof my invention as defined in the following claims.

What I claim is:

1. The method of making a seamless tubular glove, which consists in knitting to the-wrist portion thereof a partial sectionofatubular hand "divisions in a stepped relation at a varied trans- ,verselevelythen adding in sequential order sep arate finger tube portions to said respective finger adivisions,-and completing the glove by a draw-. string tied engagement of the upper loops of eachfinger and thumb tube to close together their top ends.

-2. The method of making a-fashioned=handfitting integrally knitted seamless tubular glove, which-comprises knitting a wrist-bandportion, knitting to the top'edge ofsaid wrist-band portion a partial seamless-tubular hand portion section having at one side thereof anintegral gradually wideningfashioned section extending upwardly from adjacent said wrist-band to a laterally projecting extension of the upper'end' of said hand, portion-section, knitting a seamless tubular thumb portion to said laterally projecting upper end extension, knitting to the remaining portion of said upper end a completing seamless tubular hand portion extension of uniform width, fashioning the upper end-of said completing extension into hand-fitting separate fingerconnecting sections, separately knitting seamless *tubular-finger portions to the respective fashioned finger-connecting sections,-andclosing the top ends of saidthumb andfinger tubes by an independent non-'knittinggoperation.

-3. An integralfashion-knitted seamless-tubular glove having hand-fitting seamless tubular thumb and finger extensions, comprising a seamless tubular hand portion having a straight side edge and 3a fashioned oppositeside edge angularly widening, from its lower end to a thumb-connecting upper end projecting laterally from saidhand portion'midway of its length, and a fashioned hand portion upper end having separate fingerconnecting divisions at stepped hand-fitting levels, a seamless tubular thumb extensionadjacent one side of saidjhand portionhavingits lower end connected to said mid-lengthlateral projection from thellatter, "and separate seamless tubular'finger extensions fromthe upper end of said' hand portion each havingits lower end connected to its respectivestepped division of the latter.

.ERIC SIMMAT.

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